[primarily
qn.1; the more descriptive political philosophy becomes, the more it resembles
political science]

·largely normative/prescriptive -- it attempts to discover
how things should be

·partly conceptual analysis -- it attempts to discover the
content of concepts relevant to PSs

Our approach to the subject will be largely historical; we
will be reading primary texts in order to discover how various philosophers
answered these questions. The philosophers we will read include: Plato,
Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Rawls,
Robert Nozick and Martha Nussbaum.

[1]
This section is heavily indebted to chapter one of Political Philosophy
by Jean Hampton.